What about the anti-Counterfeit Agency? <br><br>It should also be enjoined in this blame against KeBS and CCK.<br><br><br>my 0.01 cents<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 October 2012 13:02, Odhiambo Washington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:odhiambo@gmail.com" target="_blank">odhiambo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Bring this a little closer home, Steve.<br><br>Where do you think KeBS was when all those substandard seatbelts were being imported?<br>
Where do you think KeBS was when all those substandard speed governors were being imported?<br>
<br>They were very much there, and awake, but the fat cats wouldn't let them touch those imports, leave alone look at them!<br><br>Someone said imports are pre-inspected/approved at source by agents of KeBS. It's just an entry in the statutes, probably.<br>
<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 12:44 PM, Steve Muchai <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:smuchai@gmail.com" target="_blank">smuchai@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 3:11 PM, John Gitau <<a href="mailto:jgitau@gmail.com" target="_blank">jgitau@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
</div><div>> I'm not sure I understand where KEBS failed. Unless the phones being<br>
> switched off were actually certified by KEBS.<br>
<br>
</div>+1.<br>
It could argued that operators should have never allowed invalid IMEIs<br>
to register on their networks in the first place, but this goes full<br>
circle, back to the CCK again - why the regulatory framework was not<br>
in place to prevent it in the first place.<br>
<br>
The basic features of the GSM core network could have been used to<br>
block services to counterfeits from the onset, thus reducing the<br>
burden on KEBs. That would have denied the counterfeits a foothold in<br>
the market in the first place. Several birds dead, killed with one<br>
regulatory stone.<br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
Steve<br>
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